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...Israelis could retaliate by seizing a high-level Syrian official. But such a move, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Arens admitted, "would increase the chance for an armed clash with Syria." Other options could prove no less incendiary. "The situation is fluid and dangerous enough for the Syrians to play games," said a top-ranking Israeli defense official in Tel Aviv. "It might be a game they will regret ever playing...
Where ignorant armies clash by night...
...sense, the head-on collision between the state's two most powerful politicians is a clash of the New South vs. the Old. Hunt, 46, is a consensus seeker and problem solver. Though he has little flair for oratory and not much of a sense of humor, his following ranges from impoverished blacks to progressive educators and white businessmen struggling for economic growth. Even Republicans concede that Hunt has run the state well, attracting $13 billion in new business investment, adding 207,000 new jobs, improving roads and schools...
...Hart-Mondale clash was more than a family feud between like-minded rivals. Their differences have reopened a debate that has flared periodically since America assumed the mantle of global leadership after World War II, namely, the degree to which the U.S. should intervene abroad when its interests or those of its allies are affected. With most domestic issues too complex or gray to rouse voters, concerns about the U.S. role abroad have come to dominate the Democrats' race. Says Mondale Press Secretary Maxine Isaacs: "The campaign has boiled down to foreign policy...
...five-member commission he appointed to investigate the Aquino affair too partisan? He agreed to replace it with a more independent and impartial body. Did a bloody revolution seem imminent after a clash between protesters and policemen that left ten dead? He agreed to withdraw all uniformed soldiers from Manila's financial district and allow the demonstrators to police themselves. Was the daily press nothing more than a servile government mouthpiece? He agreed to let a few alternative papers criticize his policy with impunity...